Zombie Night Follow Up

I wrote the gun range. This is their reply. I would sincerely like to think this is their honest answer. It would make me believe logical and constructive dialog, and change, is possible. So, some good might actually come of this:

Thank you for your comment. We have never thought the Zombie target looked similar to our President. I would agree with you if this Zombie target was made to the likeness of the President, it would be not only offensive and inflammatory but illegal.

This Zombie target which they make in paper and in 3-D, is the most popular target we sell and has been in production for at least 3 years.

We have been doing this popular event for about a year and you are the first to bring to our attention any resemblance to our President. If we receive more comments in regards to the likeness to our President, we will take these targets off the shelves.

We have never put the two together and would never disrespect our President, or anyone else for that matter.

Again, we greatly appreciate your comments, as for without them we cannot make informed decisions.

I’m not really surprised that target is their most popular. I plan to send them some of the reviews revealed in this thread.

I am a long time Romero Zombie fan - but ever since right wing goobers latched onto it as a stand in for their paranoid end times fears (totally missing the anti-consumerism and radicalism of Romero) I cringe over such zombie events.

I am a long time Romero Zombie fan - but ever since right wing goobers latched onto it as a stand in for their paranoid end times fears (totally missing the anti-consumerism and radicalism of Romero) I cringe over such zombie events.

Romero’s start came out of a storefront studio on the South Side of Pittsburgh. His slasher flick ‘big break’ was filming Mr. Rogers’ appendectomy (or gall bladder) for WQED.

Anyway, I actually was never into the Italian zombie movies which were all gore and no story.

Romero’s zombie movies touched on American life and the fears around it (it is not sustainable a lifestyle, consumerism, racism, etc) and they are the only horror movies I like - I am more of a sci-fi fan and was never into horror movies per say (unless there was a sci-fi element like Invasion of the Body Snatchers).

What fascinates me about this is that something like this movie was never seen before - sure there were similar such movies but nothing like it. I like looking into a snapshot of when the “old world” confronts the “new world” and is gobsmacked and has no idea what it is looking at or how to process it.

I replied to them with some examples of the video comments and discussion form posts from 2011 when the figure was first released showing that the likeness was noticed.

I got this reply:

Thanks for the feeds,

It appears most of these comments if not all are from anti-Obama supporters and want to input the likeness to our President, some people just can not get over the elections. We will keep our ears open during Zombie Night and if we hear anything that they are shooting the target because of the likeness, they will be taken off or we will make some type of change on the target (we have over 200 in stock and can’t return them).

Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

They are right that the comments are from anti’s. I believe that, of course many people who did not comment still agree with the interpretation of the likeness and drive its popularity.

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